Tag: Ginger Burow

Day 4- Houston Rockets Day 2, and Mother’s Day

First let me begin by wishing all you Moms out there a Happy Mother’s Day! I sincerely hope it was a great one for you. I know this wasn’t the ideal mother’s day for my mom, being in rehab for her knee, but at least it will all be done soon and she will be up and going again. My son and I did spend a couple of hours there with her after church today. We had a nice visit. Later I made him go with me to see the movie, Age of Adeline, and then to Wal-Mart shopping. His sister, Kasey, called me right after the movie and found much humor in that I had drug him to a chick flick. I treated him to Whataburger after though.

Houston launches ended around 8:00 pm this evening. It was a successful weekend with only a few transonic not making it to the pad. I watched the launches on Livestream for several hours this afternoon. I saw about 7 go up, before the live feed ended for the day. It was fun to watch, albeit not nearly as fun as it is to be there in person. The live feed only showed the rockets leaving the pad, but didn’t follow them in flight so a little is lost there in the fun and excitement of the activity.

It was amusing to watch the live feed go from the pad to the schools watching the flights. Each time, the students were all there with the camera phones videoing, and they all moved in unison upward following their vehicle into the sky. Next after it landed, they would share high fives with each other, and often with Mr. Brett Williams, the SystemsGo Coordinator. Whether in person or on the stream, they thrill on the students’ faces is still the same.

Congratulations to all the schools and their students that participated this weekend. You have all done a marvelous job, and even if you don’t realize it you are in a category ahead of your  peers in your learning skills. Take it all with you and you will go far.

Congratulations to the whole SystemsGo team, you have one launch set completed for this season. You all be careful on your return trip tonight, I know you are all tired and it’s a long road home. The team finally got on the road after packing up the site, at about 10:20 this evening, which will put them back here somewhere around 2:30 to 3:30 in the morning. God bless you all, safe travels, and I will be praying for you all.

www.systemsgo.org as always is the place for more information on this program. Take the time to get your school involved, the future of your students will be greatly benefited.

Day 3- Of Rockets, Old Friends, and Old Memories….

Well it was a really great day. I didn’t get to watch the live stream on Rockets 2015/Houston. Unfortunately i was busy around the house, and then couldn’t remember my log in, so I will figure that out tomorrow and watch some then. I did get updates from Steve though. He said all went well, recovery was at about 80% so that is actually pretty good. They sent up 12 today. There are 14 more planned for tomorrow. They only saw one alligator and one rattle snake, so that is good.

Even though I didn’t watch myself, my sister-in-law did and she said the live feed was having some difficulty. Hopefully that is resolved now and will be better tomorrow. Of course, she was still able to watch several, so it wasn’t too bad.

It will be a long, hard day for the crew tomorrow, starting early and ending late possibly and then a late and long drive home to Fredericksburg after they pack it in for the day. Keep them in your prayers so all goes well and everyone returns home safely, both the SystemsGo crew and the students of the schools attending.

I attended the 60th wedding anniversary of some of my parent’s best friends, Mr. Dennis Lange and his lovely wife, Mrs. Shirley Schnerr Lange. It was held in Doss, TX at the home of their daughter and her husband, Peggy and Clyde Crenwelge. There were about 100 folks in attendance and all enjoyed wonderful BBQ, beans, potato salad, and German chocolate cake. It was a wonderful celebration and an absolutely beautiful place to have it.

It was so much fun to be out there again and with friends we just don’t get to see or spend much time with anymore. Even their son, Jason Lange, who lives in Seward, Alaska was able to be in attendance. That in itself was a treat for everyone. He and I visited and caught up on each other’s lives and families. And of course reminisced about old times when we were kids running around out on the place. We all had a lot of fun back then. It was fun walking down memory lane and remembering all those old times and stories. I have to admit there were a few I had to think about, but, yes I do remember.

Of course, it is the water fights and playing hide and seek in the dark while Jason made scary cougar screams that I think I remember the most. Probably because they were a regular occurrence every time we went to the Lange’s house. You never went out there without at least one, if  not two changes of clothes, even in winter. Those were the days.

Congratulations Dennis and Shirley, what a wonderful 60 years you have had together. Thank you, Peggy and Clyde for the tour of your gorgeous home, hopefully we will all get together again soon. Thank you Jason for the visit and the trip down memory lane. It is too bad you and Rhonda don’t live closer, I am sure we could have had a lot of fun together still.

Well I warned you that some days would be more on a personal note. Thank you for indulging me today. Tomorrow, will be more on Houston Rocket launch, day 2, and perhaps Mother’s day.

www.systemsgo.org as always is the place for more information on this program. Take the time to get your school involved, the future of your students will be greatly benefited.

TGIF -Day 2

In the interest of keeping this ongoing and up to date, I pause to enter a snippet for day 2 of my new blog. Spell check doesn’t like that word, oh well, too bad, it works for today.

It is a cloudy, dreary, yet mostly rain-less day in the Texas Hills. It looks cold but is instead muggy and warm. Apparently it is the same down in Clute where our SystemsGo team has been setting up for tomorrow’s rocket shoot for the Houston area. Lift off begins tomorrow through Sunday. Good luck to all the schools participating in this weekend’s event, may all tests be successful and recovery be 100%.

I understand that most of the set up that could be done today was completed by around noon. All was going well. Only complaint she had, was that love was in the air with the resident Love Bugs and they were all borrowing Chelsea’s truck to “play” and she was not appreciating that very much. On the bright side, if that is the worst of things, then I do believe they will all do well, team and bugs alike.

May I say though that if an alligator grabs your rocket, please just let him keep it. A message to the launch and recovery teams, if Chelsea falls in an alligator inhabited marsh while a looking for a rocket, save her and leave the rocket!!!

That was just for you, Chelsea, I knew you would appreciate it, just a little miscommunication flash back from years past. Hope you all have a great time and things go really well.

If there are any updates forth coming to share from that shoot this weekend, I will try to share them, but quite often they are super busy and details are limited and sparse. I do not know for sure if the video link will be available for this shoot that will be available at the Fredericksburg shoot next week. If it is, it should be available on the SystemsGo website I posted yesterday.

www.systemsgo.org

Ok, just to prove that I do write other than just blogging, here is a poem I wrote back in March and haven’t shared yet.

Spring Unfolds

Spring unfolds
Amid chill, warmth, and wet.
Temperatures yo-yo between hot and cold,
As rain in short bursts,
The parched earth strains to hold.

Nature rallies to Spring’s efforts,
Exploding with new growth and color;
Vivid greens blanket the prairies
And open like an umbrella,
Covering the trees.

Vibrant yellows, pinks, purples and blues
Create a patchwork quilt,
Across the hills and fields,
As flowers lift their faces
To the warmth the sun yields.

The world becomes a brightly colored canvas;
Changing and growing each day,
As a painting unfolds;
More beautiful and grand
For all mankind to behold.

Ginger
3/27/15